link between tinnitus and hearing loss

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Link between tinnitus and hearing loss

• Tinnitus

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Tinnitus

• Tinnitus is also known as ringing in the ears.
  Tinnitus does not hearing loss, but people with
  hearing loss can have tinnitus. Tinnitus can
  range from mild to highly traumatic, making its
  victim desperate for relieve.
• It can happen only sometimes, can occur for a
  given time of days then take a break before
  recurring again, or it can be constant. The sound
  can vary in pitch from quiet to loud, or it can
  stay the same.

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Causes of tinnitus

• The most common cause of tinnitus is risk to loud
  noises, like as loud music or bomb blast. Other
  reasons include
• 1. Head injuries
• 2. Ototoxic drugs
• 3. Earwax
• 4. Otosclerosis
• 5. Conclusion

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Types of tinnitus

• The assortment of the five sense organs is like
  as sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing.
• 1.Tinnitus is the notion of noise or sound in the
  ears. A general problem, tinnitus impact about
  one in ten people. It can improve with
  treatment. Treat an recognizable built-in reason
  something helps another treatments reduce or mask
  the noise, making tinnitus less noticeable.

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Types of tinnitus

• 2.two types of tinnitus (1)subjective tinnitus
  and (2) objective tinnitus.
• Subjective tinnitus- It is the most frequent
  type of tinnitus. It can have many causes but
  most commonly it results from hearing loss. When
  tinnitus is caused by the disorders of the inner
  ear and auditory nerve, a frequent cause is noise
  exposure that damages hair cells and loss in the
  inner ear.

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Types of tinnitus

• Objective tinnitus- It is a type of tinnitus
  your doctor can hear when he or she does an
  examination. It rarity type of tinnitus may be
  reason by a blood ship problem, a middle ear bone
  condition or muscle contractions.

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Treatment

• Tinnitus can be managed by a variety of
  techniques. One of the most common techniques is
  tinnitus masking. It is masking part of noising
  therapy , when uses noise to mask or "cancel
  out" the tinnitus. medicine can include the use
  of ear-level sound generators or hearing aids.
• Additional treatment methods include biofeedback
  and stress reduction. For them with both hearing
  loss and serious tinnitus, cochlear implants can
  help.
• For therapy, people can also go to tinnitus
  therapy clinics around the country.

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How tinnitus different from hearing loss

• A misconception accordance to tinnitus is that it
  is supposed a pathological, but the reality is
  that it is only a symptom nothing more. In the
  calm environment, tinnitus upset you more,
  particularly at night, when the masking effect of
  ambient noise from the environment is lost.

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How tinnitus different from hearing loss

• Researching shows that it is reason due to low
  neural activity which connects the damaged part
  of the inner ear of the central nervous system in
  the brain, leading to increased neural activity,
  as the signals travel to the brain. When that is
  increased, activity reaches the hearing center of
  the brain, a sound is heard even though the ear
  is not picking up any loud sound from its
  surroundings.

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